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The only thing you may wanna rework is your cod piece. It's hard to explain, but if you make it come down to a forked J then you can fold it over and dish the "cup". Once thats done you can join the seam together with some goop and smooth it out with a small touch of bondo.

Best cupping action you'll ever get...and highly comfortable to. Thats how I did mine, I should probably toss up a pattern some day. This keeps you from having to glue together multiple pieces of metal to make it, or get the lumpy cod look.

cant finish the weathering due to it being 230am. and the top coat had an "accident" there are really high winds outside. so one of the plates blew onto the ab plate and they stuck together. so thats the weathering you see. tomorrow ill start sanding and whatever to the plates and see what happens. if i have to do a re-paint, no problems...

than just to be crazy, i wanted to see what it woudl look like on my old vest...

ok, now these shoulders are driving me nuts. as much as i dont like JB weld, im gonna go and have to use it on these parts... they'll look sweet when i get em done...

the weathering is pretty nasty in the drawings (in a GOOD way) so ive got my work cut out for me...this also means im gonna have to get another helmet....

It was than i realized since i couldnt actually make the plates like the concept due to bodily damaged possibly incurred with eviscerating, i painted sections black to emulate the original design. or close to is anyway...

also note the PROPER way to weather the plates towards the end...

yes i will finish planishing it later....but next up...the shoulder bells. but my band (Paperboy Jack) has a show and ive got to leave now....till later!

if you see anythign wrong, BESIDES the non-plannishing, please speak up.

thanks. i was thinkign to use my ranger BDU's as an undersuit. we'll see what it looks like. ill do a mock-up with my current vest, and those plates and the black BDU's to see what it looks like. im also gonna add some balistic padding under the shoulder bells to make them look kick ***, but if at possible id like a more detailed picture of them from differnt angles.